Thank You And Goodbye

When I first started Red Carpet Fashion Awards back in February of 2007, it was just a hobby.

Little did I know that 8 years later it would enable me to have so many life-changing experiences and bring so many amazing people in my life.

I took awhile to think about it, and without getting into too much detail, I have decided that this will be my last post on the site.

I want to personally thank the millions of readers who helped grow Red Carpet Fashion Awards. Without your support none of this would have been possible.

I would like to say how much I appreciate all the positive comments and emails of encouragement. During moments of exhaustion or sadness they always gave me a huge lift.

I know many of you will be upset about the site closing, but I hope you will appreciate the hard work I have put into this site (for the most part) on my own and without investment – which hasn’t been easy.

When people assumed that this site was run by a team of people, I saw it as a compliment, but after time I realised that it was perhaps an indication that I was doing way too much.

I would like to thank Lucy Dachtler, Net-A-Porter.com, Film Fashion, Sasha Charnin Morrison and Becki Newton who in the very early days made me realise how special this site was.

I would also like to thank all the contributors to this site. Their hard work and efficiency will be appreciated by anyone who has ever read this blog. But I will reserve my up-most thanks and sincere gratitude to Rachel Watkins who was always there when I was still on my computer at 9pm (or even 1am) to take over when I was exhausted after a 12 + hour day.

I have to give a huge shout out to Jason Rembert who is a true gentleman and never held my criticisms of Rita Ora’s looks against me and Prada/Miu Miu who never blacklisted me from their events despite my less than favourable reviews of their red carpet gowns.

Thanks again for your support of Red Carpet Fashion Awards. It has truly been an amazing ride.

Thank you for such an amazing effort and ride, FC. I am really shocked and sad, but I definitely wish you all the best on your next project! I am one of those daily readers that never comment, but today I had to write you goodbye, all the best from Spain! 🙂

I could tell the site took a toll on your mood sometimes so I knew this announcement was coming soon and yet it’s still a shock. I’ve been coming here for years so I won’t pretend not to be sad or disappointed.

But, from the bottom of my heart, I wish you all the best and many more successful adventures. You deserve it. Happy new year!

I’ve reading your blog day by day since 2007, as I wasn’t working those years I had all the time to come to your blog and read your posts, reading RCFA became one of my first things to do when I woke up.
Thanks to you, I’ve learned a lot about fashion, its world itself and I had the chance to go to several fashion shows here in Paris (I think I even saw you once) and recognize brands and people that without you, I couldn’t never be able to know who they were.
As I began to work my reading frequency changed and today I decided to come again and read you again, but I wasn’t expecting to read your last post!
I wish you a lot of success in your projects and to be happy whathever you do!

I feel really sad about the site closing..It was fantastic and really breathtaking all these years I was following it. I wish you all the best for the new year and to find a new dream. If you are up to any new fashion blog or site, I would be glad to know it..Happy new year!

Thank you FC!! My initial reaction is utter sadness – checking this blog is a something I look forward to each day. It never fails to lift my mood or show me something beautiful. I have happily learned a great deal about the world of fashion while reading these posts, all the while not even realizing how, over the years, you made me consider the visual and emotional impact of clothing in a way I never had before. Thank you for creating this site that has been so special to so many! We will miss it but look forward to your exploration of the wonderful new territory ahead. Happy New Years!

What a total shame! The way you match up red carpet outfits with the designers, runway looks and overall collections has ensured that high fashion has a firm place in my heart – seeing your posts means I find myself looking at celebrity photos elsewhere and picking out fashion house signatures and collection signatures, and when perusing stuff on the high street I often come across garments that are heavily inspired by anyone from Alexander Wang to Valentino – and it’s cool to know that! We’ll lose some of that context with your departure, because you’ve offered something that no one else so consistently provides. Alternatively, we’ll find ourselves stalking Vogue’s runway repository to an extent that gets us fired…

I’ve been following since forever and this is such sad news. Awards season will be so boring now 🙁
Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put into this site. I’ve always appreciated how you left gossip and personal opinions about the celebs outside of the blog and focused on the fashion.
Best of luck and thank you for one of the best blogs out there.

OH NO! Like the others, you are the first site I open when I wake up. I have been a fan for so long I can’t remember when you were NOT a part of my daily routine. My fandom reached its height when this past September/October I was in Milan or Paris (they are both such a blur) for Fashion week. While shopping at Gucci I looked to the left and there you were. I was like a giddy star struck celebrity stalker. I gathered up the courage to introduce myself. I must have sounded like a blubbering idiot “You are my favorite. I am such a fan. You are the best. Thank you for being so great.” was all I could muster. You were so gracious. My guess is that you had already made your decision to shut down the site. I hope that moment made you realize that your efforts had been recognized and appreciated. You will be sorely missed. That said, I know you will be back in some form or another. You are too talented. When that time comes I will once again be a devoted follower of whatever you choose to do 🙂 Be well. Good luck. Thank you!

Your work will be sorely missed! It’s been so great to have an insight into celebrity fashion that’s interesting, compassionate and personal. Thank you for your great work, honest voice and dedication to the blog reader. Wishing you all the very best in the adventures to come and know that you’ve really made a difference with your blog. Happy New Year!!

For the past two years the first i did every morning was read your blog. Its genuinely heartbreaking to know that this is your last post. I am literally panicking as i love your blog and reading it was a daily routine. 2016 is not going to be the same without RCFA. You’re different than other bloggers since you don’t put down anyone to be liked. I love your fashion sense and will truly miss your blog.
Very best wishes for 2016 and thank you for making me fall in love with fashion.

I have not have internet access due to work and unforeseen circumstances.
My internet and online browsing time have been limited due to private work but this site is always a must visit whenever I am browsing.

I have saddened and shock but I find it a pity to lose a original site and idea like this, I wish you the best in your future plans and you must have big reasons to lose this site.
I thank you for your dedication to fashion and to us all around the world where events are happening around the clock and universally we all gather here to discuss nothing but our love for glamour,

A big thank you for your dedication and the inspiration from your timely posts!

(PS: sorry for asking this when it’s clear that you are willing to make a complete shut-down… must the website go offline? It’s my go-to place when I am looking for red-carpet-fashion information, and a great “place to hang out”) – Again, thank you so much and good luck for what’s coming next!

I have only been following this blog for one year, but I already wouldn’t ever want to miss it and feel like the next award season, for example, will be much less fun without this website. Whenever I had a free moment, this was usually the website I went to. I sure am going to miss it, but I of course respect your decision!
I wish you all the best for whatever comes next for you! 🙂

It’s been a fantastic run. Congratulations on growing your hobby into a phenomenon and thank you for all of the hard work. Thank you also for permitting and moderating comments (given the, er, less civilized aspects of the Internet, I can only imagine what you did not let through). My very best wishes for your continued success in 2016 and beyond.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Nooooooooooooooooo! Im so sad:( Really! but…THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK! ps. girls, can you recommend me some similar fashion blog? I need to find my new everyday drug:(

It’s a big surprise and pity to read the last post on NYE. For the past few years I visited your site everyday and it has become a part of my life. Thank you Catherine for all the hard works, and the fashion information/knowledge that you brought to me! I hope we’ll all start a new chapter in the coming 2016. Happy new year and thank you again:)

I’m taken aback and don’t really know what to say, other than to thank you for all your hard work. Not going to lie, had a little tear in my eye when I came across your post just now! Silly, maybe, but your site has provided a great deal of enjoyment to me over the past 6 or so years I’ve been following you. Thank you again Catherine, and all the best in your future endeavours! Best wishes.

Yes please somebody recommend us places. Cause average gossip blogs aren’t useful for following looks like this was, they never get all of the looks and the fashion posts get lost between the rest of the gossip posts 🙁

WHAT. If I would have known that was the last BDOTY survey I would have spent much more time opening new email accounts solely to vote for Kim K as WDOTY.

Anyway, thank you so much Catherine for 8 years of exceptional content. You will be missed sorely by my sister and I, who have so thoroughly enjoyed discussing your coverage of Awards season, Met Gala, promo tours, etc. Good luck for whatever you have planned for the future, can’t wait to read about the amazing things you achieve next!

I have been an avid reader of this website since the early days when I was only 16, and now at 23 I can say that your website has been a truly inspirational and educational part of in my interest in fashion. I am crushed to see you go, but of course wish you the best in your future endeavours. Thank you so much for putting all this hard work into an amazing website! 2016 will not feel the same without being able to check it daily. Best of luck to you Catherine! You are incredible.

OMG, I really don’t know what I am going to do without this site. It is bookmarked and I view it every day. I am so sorry you are closing it. I hope you will still be doing something “in fashion” and let us know if you are. Thank you for all the years.

Sooooo sad to read this! I can’t stress how much this site has helped me to understand fashion and even popular culture to an extent. Sincere thanks for everything you have done – it was amazing while it lasted! Best of luck with your future endeavours xx

i cant believe this site wont be a part of my daily routine anymore! I am heartbroken !

but i understand that this is not a decision you would have made lightly so i respect your choice to soend your valuable time doing what makes you feel the happiest instead of perhaps feeling like an obligation or a chore.

my sincere thanks for all your hardwork ! and you Catherine will be sorely missed!

I am used to checking out your website every morning before I have had my coffee. I sometimes re-read your posts on the weekends that I have to work, just because it is a good stress-buster. It is going to be so difficult to manage without your website. I feel hollow right now. I’m sure you have a good reason to do what you are doing and after all, you can’t keep it up forever. I wish you the very best and hope to read / see / hear you elsewhere in whatever way you plan on sharing your perspective on fashion next.

I found you in what seems like eons ago during awards season by Googling “red carpet fashion,” so not only your sense of style but your command of the English language and sentence sense was an admiration since the very beginning. I am always thrilled to see or hear of one reaching out to Life for new adventures. I wish you only the best. And I send you most sincere thanks for making public transportation rides to work (while on my cell phone) less mundane and taxing. Agreed … what a great ride it’s been. I will look forward to Googling Catherine Fallon in the future. With gratitude — Best of luck to you!

Whew, I’d like to comment (for the first time) and probably the last time. This site was one of the few diversions in my daily routine that was always a positive input. So I will cry a small tear that my favorite website will be offline from now on.

I know it can be hard sometimes to be under pressure, I hope you didn’t close down the site because of certain negative comments on the website. I think this is one of the few websites where comments were (almost always) respectful and focused on the subject we all love: fashion. It will be very difficult to find a similar website where the same level of respect and devotion to fashion is upheld.

I wish you all the best and hope to see you return to what you do very well someday.

WOW! I am very sad to hear that you are closing Red Carpet Fashion Awards!

As everyone else has said, your blog was part of my morning routine for many years, and I loved reading your commentary on all the fashion! Your blog has always honest, concise and informative – thank you!

I have seen your website and you personally grow, and I am sure that you are moving onwards and upwards! All the best for your future endeavours!

Do you or anyone else have any suggestions of similar (yeah, I know, no one else will do it with Katherine’s style and pizazz….) websites?

As a site regular visitor I had never posted a comment before but after all these years of being a true fan of your work, I have to thank you for it. I have always appreciated how professional and clever the posts are and visiting RCFA has been a pleasure. Even though I feel sad, I am also grateful for such an amazing site. I have learnt a lot from it and I am going to miss it very much. Good luck and I hope to hear from you in future!

This is some serious sad news. Thank you, Catherine, for all your work during the last years. I hope that whatever new goals you set for yourself, you will reach them and have a wonderful career in fashion. Obviously, that’s where you are meant to be. As the others already said, I have learned a lot from reading this blog. I’m not a fashion expert but I’ve always had fun coming here and read your critics and the users comments. My daily routine is now smashed into pieces, *lol* but I can hardly blame you. There’s a time for everything in live and maybe it’s time for you to start something new. Wish you all the best! Now I just need to find a fashion website that can keep up with yours. It will be difficult 😉

Gurl Heartbreak!!! This feels like a Dear John letter… I have been around since 2008 I believe, and you have inspired, educated and made me laugh so much. I hope you share your next steps whatever they may be. God Bless you and your family.

My daily website. Facebook, YouTube and RCFA as a routine everytime I use any device. Believe or not I learned so much from you, from colors, fitting, shoes, accesories, hair and make up. You’re such and inspiration.
I wish you the best and I hope to see more from you very soon in fashion terms cause, girlfriend, you own it like nobody else.
Im a big male fan from Mexico wishing you the best personally and professionally. May the force be with you 😀
Rafael.

FC, thanks so much for the years of hard work and passion you’ve put into this blog.

I’ve been following it for years and years, since I was a teenager in a small Australian city, and you’ve opened my eyes to the world of beautiful clothes and the magic they can create. ‘Thanks’ seems like too small a word.

I must say I am deeply sad that this site is closing. It has been a routine for me to open this site every day just like everyone else. I’ve been following your site since 2008. Although I never posted any comments on you site, this last post deserve a special farewell words. Thank you so much for your hard works over that past years. I will definitely miss your perspective and point of view regarding style. I do hope the very best for your future. Please do let us know if your next projects are still involved in fashion.

This website might be a simple concept with just posting what people wears, but every morning my fingers will automatically type in your url and hope to see the latest trends, what my fave celebrities are wearing and most importantly it educated me on designers name. It has truly been fun reading your website.

+ 1 , I can sign my name under Nikee’s comment. I’ve been here since like forever. I am so sorry that you are closing the site and yet I want to wish you all the best for the future!
Thank you FC for those many wonderful years we had with your site and for all your hard worj and dedication to it!

Same here. I have been visiting your site since ages, and this site is what I check every morning. I am upset that it is closing, but want to take this moment to thank you, FC and your team for all the amazing coverage and all the hard work you guys put in. All the best for your future.

I don’t know how to start…I have been following this site since Ï can’t remember, like someone has said, the logo was a red heel. It has been also the only fashion blog I follow, and it has allow me to know so many designers and fashion insight, to the point that now I see some garment and get to recognize the label just by seeing the cut or materials used…

I’m so sad you are closing the blog. But on the other hand, I understand you, I respect your decision. Now it would akward not to start the blog routine without cheking your blog first (in fact, the only one I chek at work daily, like I’m doing now).

I just want to thank you Catherine, you and your passion in fashion have ment I lot to me, so I will be missing your posts, but I wish you the best.

Me three. This is the only website I check daily at work, even before reading the work emails.

I really like this site a lot. Now my mornings will never be the same again. Nonetheless, thank you so much for your effort and hard work! Wish you all the best in your future endeavours. All the way from Singapore.

I’ve been following this site daily since I came upon it in January of 2009, when the logo was a red heel. I can’t believe it’s been 7 years. I still remember the user-submitted wish lists – you even featured me once!. I’ve been so happy to see you gain recognition and readership over the years. It’s so strange to know there won’t be any more posts.

Thank you. Thanks to you, I know the difference between Elie Saab, Valentino, Zac Posen, Rodarte, Chanel, Dior, Marchesa…. I was never someone you could consider fashion-knowledgeable and never thought I would ever get to that point, but one day I woke up and realized, hey, I actually know things!

I especially loved that we were always on the same wavelength about outfits. Sometimes in my mind I’ll think, “ooooh let down by the hair” or “should’ve gone hair up” or “terrible shoe choice, what was she thinking” and invariably you would make the same comment in your posts.

Good luck on your future endeavors, and thanks for adding a little more color into my days!

I agree with all that you mentioned in your comment.
I have been a fan since early on and each day I check your posts religiously.
I’ve learned so much about fashion because of you, and now I too know when a person wears an outfit, what goes well and what does not.
I would really really miss your posts and your quick and witty comments.
It really makes me sad 🙁
But I wish you all the best in your future and good luck.
Thank you for being true to your self and passionate in what do in your life.
Thank You all this awesome site and your hard work.

Omg I can’t believe this…. I wish it was easier for you and you could go on, your site is magnificent and I checked it daily…
I’m wishing you the best in your life and your career, I hope the best is ahead of you.
I’ve been checking your site since about 2010-11, you’ve done an incredible job throughout the years, congrats to you and fairwell..

Well, this feels awkwardly like I’m saying goodbye to a friend. I have been a regular visitor since 2008, or even the very beginning, so it will be weird not to have RCFA in my morning routine. The majority of my fashion fix I was getting from this site. I got introduced to various amazing designers here, ones that I was probably bound to miss elsewhere.
I am going to miss RCFA. That said, I do understand your decision. Good luck to you, and I hope you will continue to slay in the fashion world, as you are amazing and talented. Hopefully, we’ll get to hear from you and your fashion critic voice again. I am looking forward to it.
Best of luck.